Court Pound, Including Boundary and Garden Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. Detached cottage. 1 related planning application.
Court Pound, Including Boundary and Garden Walls
- WRENN ID
- unlit-cobble-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1984
- Type
- Detached cottage
- Address
- Court Pound, Including Boundary and Garden Walls, High Street, Langton Matravers
- OS grid reference
- SY 991 787
- Coordinates
- 50.60889, -2.013
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Court Pound is a detached cottage, likely dating from the 17th century. It features rubble stone walls and a stone slate roof, with brick stacks at each end. The building has an L-shaped plan and consists of one storey and an attic. The projecting wing has a casement window with glazing bars on each floor and a stone stack on the end wall. To the left, there is a lean-to porch with a studded door, and to the right, a lean-to extension with a catslide roof. The main range has a ground floor with one casement window featuring glazing bars, while the attic includes a pent-roofed dormer with similar casements. Inside, the main ground floor room boasts a large open fireplace with a cambered timber lintel and some stop-chamfered ceiling beams. Surrounding the cottage are dry stone boundary and garden walls on the east, west, and south sides. This property is managed by the National Trust and is recorded as RCHM Monument 31 in Dorset Volume II.
Local climate
Court Pound, Including Boundary and Garden Walls receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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